Nine Faces of Nothing

(63-page PDF)

This is a small-format comic collection that looks at the experience of major depression (and whatever else it is that's going on in here) from different angles and in different styles. There are nine stories, between one page and nine pages long, all in black and white and gray.

Some of it is directly autobiographical; some is pretty abstract; some is funny(?), or grim, or both; there's also a Lovecraft adaptation for reasons that made sense to me at the time. I can't say I have any great insights, but I hope people will get something out of it.

Here's the content note from the inside cover: "This depicts aspects of major depressive episodes including thoughts of self-injury, obsessive fears, dissociative experiences, sloth and despair. However, these depictions will often be poorly explained, abstract, and cryptic. Therefore the book might be either too disturbing or not disturbing enough."